About the Authors

Chien-Hua Chen

‡ Co-first author.

Affiliations Digestive Disease Center, Show-Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, Hungkuang University, Taichung, Taiwan, Chung Chou University of Science and Technology, Yuanlin Township, Changhua County, Taiwan

Che-Ming Hsu

‡ Co-first author.

Affiliation Digestive Disease Center, Show-Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan

Cheng-Li Lin

Affiliations Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

An-Kuo Chou

Contributed equally to this work with: An-Kuo Chou, Long-Bin Jeng

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Long-Bin Jeng

Contributed equally to this work with: An-Kuo Chou, Long-Bin Jeng

otc.Jeng@gmail.com

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, Organ Transplantation Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CHC LBJ. Data curation: CHC CMH CLL AKC LBJ. Formal analysis: CHC CMH CLL AKC LBJ. Funding acquisition: LBJ. Investigation: CHC LBJ. Methodology: CLL LBJ. Project administration: LBJ. Resources: CHC LBJ. Software: CLL LBJ. Supervision: LBJ. Validation: CHC CMH CLL AKC LBJ. Visualization: CHC CMH CLL AKC LBJ. Writing – original draft: CHC CMH CLL AKC LBJ. Writing – review & editing: CHC CMH CLL AKC LBJ.